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  • Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform

    In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics laboratories.

    IEEE Spectrum3 min read
  • Measure Distant Asteroids With a DIY Rig

    I’ve seen two total solar eclipses and have been duly impressed by what happens as the moon casts its shadow on Earth. But recently I’ve become even more intrigued by a similar phenomenon that doesn’t involve the sun or the moon—something called an asteroid occultation.That’s what happens when an…

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  • 3 Skills That Will Matter More in the Age of AI

    This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!If you have kids, they’re probably back in school…

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  • Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics

    Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too.After starting her career as a biologist, a chance opportunity saw Mazzolai switch streams to engineering and become an early…

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  • This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations

    Shortwave radios offer a way to connect one location on Earth to practically anywhere else with minimal infrastructure. But these radios come with some drawbacks—a significant one being that, unlike satellite communications, their transmission rates for digital data are typically measured in just…

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  • Parallel Reads and Write Optimization for Large-Scale Data Replication

    This White Paper gives data engineers and architects a practical overview of how parallel partitioned reads, write-path optimization, and cloud-native bulk loading reduce large-table replication times, and why replication speed has become a business concern as data volumes grow.Download this free…

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  • Turning Tech Talent Into Leadership Legacy

    Transitioning from years of working in a senior technical or executive role to a leadership position is one of the most challenging phases of a STEM career.

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  • The AI Inference Revolution Is Here

    Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions.

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  • The Mind-bending Joyrides That Gave Rise to Tesla

    In 2003, Martin Eberhard, a cofounder of Tesla Motors, decided it was time to start wooing investors. To do that, however, he needed an electric car. So he talked to Alan Cocconi and asked if he could borrow the tZero, the revolutionary and blazingly fast electric roadster that Cocconi had built at…

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  • Countries Seek to Curb Social Media Addiction for Kids

    Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves.The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as their cognitive and social development.The…

    IEEE Spectrum7 min read
  • Responsible AI for Higher Education

    This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do - as individuals, and members of their IEEE chapters.

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  • IEEE to Reward Sections for High Voter Turnout in Annual Election

    For this year’s IEEE annual election, the IEEE Tellers Committee will recognize the Sections with the highest voter turnout (based on total eligible voters) in each Region with an incentive reward after the election results are accepted by the IEEE Board of Directors.The incentive initiative is…

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  • Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91

    Franklin “Frank” KuoCodeveloper of ALOHAnetFellow, 91; died 14 AprilKuo helped develop ALOHAnet, a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, in Honolulu. The system went online in 1971 and represented the first public demonstration of a wireless packet data network.

    IEEE Spectrum7 min read
  • An Engineer’s Guide to Surviving a Layoff

    This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!I lost a cushy engineering management position at…

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